Shenton
Shenton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Dadlington and Sutton Cheney, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district, in the county of Leicestershire, England, situated 2.20 miles (3.54 km) south-west of Market Bosworth.
Shenton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Dadlington and Sutton Cheney, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district, in the county of Leicestershire, England, situated 2.20 miles (3.54 km) south-west of Market Bosworth. Shenton was formerly a chapelry and township of the parish of Market Bosworth. The settlement is almost entirely agricultural, containing several farms. Much of the land has been in the same family since William Wollaston purchased the manor in 1625. It is essentially a privately owned estate village and has seen comparatively little modern development. It has been designated a conservation area. The settlement lies either side of the Sence Brook, which is crossed by a picturesque Victorian bridge. The area is fairly flat, and subject to flooding. In 1931 the parish had a population of 154.
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Worth seeing in and around Shenton
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census.
3.5 km · village and market town in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Shenton Hall
Shenton Hall is a country house opposite the church of St John the Evangelist, in the village of Shenton, in Leicestershire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
200 m · country house in Shenton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Kendall's Meadow
Kendall's Meadow is a 2.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Stoke Golding in Leicestershire. Over a dozen grass species grow on this traditionally managed hay meadow, such as common bent, red fescue, crested dog's tail and yellow oat grass.
2.3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Bosworth Hall
Bosworth Hall is a historic country house and Grade II* listed building in the rural town of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, England, now known as the Bosworth Hall Hotel. It was the country seat of the Dixie family for nearly three hundred years.
3.9 km · English country house at Market Bosworth · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shenton
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 27 km · East Midlands (EMA), 27 km · Manchester (MAN), 101 km
- Stations
- Shenton railway station, 1.2 km · Market Bosworth railway station, 3 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Shenton112 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £15–20
- London → Shenton71 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £7–10
- Luton, Luton → Shenton26 km · quickest by road, 39 min · £2.5–3.5
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shenton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shenton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Shenton
Shenton is 21 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Stoke Goldingvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Sutton Cheneyvillage in Dadlington and Sutton Cheney, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.1 km
- Dadlingtonhamlet in Leicestershire, United Kingdom2.9 km
- Attertonhamlet in Leicestershire, England, UK3.9 km
- Uptonhamlet in Leicestershire, United Kingdom2.3 km